Maltese school wins European Flick the Switch Champion award

St Francis School of Cospicua has won the European Flick the Switch Champion award during the official closing ceremony held in Rakvere, Estonia. The award was for activities related to energy saving and for teaching pupils to switch off lights and...

St Francis School of Cospicua has won the European Flick the Switch Champion award during the official closing ceremony held in Rakvere, Estonia.

The award was for activities related to energy saving and for teaching pupils to switch off lights and electrical devices when not in use.

Flick the Switch is a European-wide initiative supported by the Intelligent Energy Europe programme (IEE). Over 850 European schools and some 100,000 students, including 65 schools and 12,000 students from Malta, took part.

Another Maltese school the Kullegg San Benedittu Boys’ Secondary, Kirkop, was also awarded for its achievements towards energy efficiency with the official Flick the Switch regional energy saving champion flag.

St Francis received the official Flick the Switch winning plaque to honour the outstanding achievements during this campaign.

Over the course of the project (October to May), the campaign has resulted in over 16,800 tonnes of CO2 emissions being saved in schools and well over 24,000 tonnes in European households.

The Flick the Switch project is being organised by a consortium of 11 European organisations, and is part-funded by the European Commission’s Intelligent Energy Europe programme. The local partners were Motion Ltd. (www.pim.com.mt) and Ekoskola Malta.

www.flicktheswitch.eu.

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